Crowdfunding is a form of cooperation between a lot of people to gather a sum of money to help in the development of a specific project.

Goteo is a new way, based on this model, to stimulate collaborative projects of an open and/or free nature. As an alternative or complement to financing from public administrations or private companies, Goteo reactivates the co-responsable role of civil society.

Goteo provides an opportunity for individuals and small organisations with non-generalist projects and with difficulties in accessing resources to get help to begin projects which will later be sustainable and durable.

Goteo has an important network of support, composed by diverse agents and geographically distributed, which has accompanied us since the very first steps of the project. Agents related to the commons, free software, cultural innovation or digital activism. But there's never enough of them! So, if you want to join us, get in touch with us.

Obviously, we take our own medicine ;-) We have developed the platform from scratch in PHP. It's new code so it needed to be structured and well tested before being released, making it available progressively. Nowadays a first version has been released under an AGPL3 license. At some point we may launch a campaign about it where it will be possible to contribute with money or tasks. We're counting on everybody who has been asking about the code from day 1 of Goteo to help and improve the platform. There's still a lot to do.

You’ll notice that we ask you for some data (occasionally, personal) at different phases of your interaction with our platform - like contact information, gender, birth year, the type of organization you represent, or its legal form.

If you agree to share that information with us, we trust that you accept our Privacy Policy. However, we’d like to explain why we ask for that information, and what purpose it serves for us.

Most of that information is required when you formalize your contract as a project promoter in Goteo, and for your donation certificates when supporting campaigns seeking funding through our platform.

This information is used to create statistics that we hope will help us create better a better user experience, or to visualize the platform’s global activity - including interactions among users. This is anonymous, and not related to your Goteo identity.

Using your information to elaborate and publish open data visualizations is related to our mission as an organization, promoting the principles of the ‘opendata’ movement: generation of learning opportunities and free knowledge for society, and adding value to the purpose and impact of initiatives funded in Goteo.org

This kind of information is only transferred, when appropriate, to the promoters of the projects you support with the only purpose of satisfying the rewards distribution. Information is never transferred to other companies or entities for any kind for commercial or lucrative uses.

We strictly protect your personal data in Goteo as established in the Spanish regulation of data privacy (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos y el Reglamento de Medidas de Seguridad). The information on personal data privacy is in our Privacy Policy and in our platform’s Terms and Conditions.